On Saturday Luciana returns to Australia for the 4th time in 2010. It's another lightening fast trip for the dance icon but I'm hoping to get up with her again at the Fat As Butter music festival in Newcastle. Last time she was here I managed to pin her down for an audience but held off posting it until the clause was published. A pair of weeks ago it unexpectedly turned up on the top of the Southern Star Observer in Melbourne - so I think it's some time I divided it with you!I'm very proud of how it turned out. Luci spills the beans on her US record deal, talks about writing for Kylie and comments on her ongoing love affair with Australia. Oh and she mentions that lady boy from Girls Aloud but I won't admit that against her. Enjoy!2010 is turning into something of a banner year for Luciana.After years of lending her signature `shouty` vocal to a seemingly endless chain of underground dance tracks, the UK`s reigning club queen has finally crossed over to the mainstream and carved out a niche as the go to woman for dance music`s hottest producers.In the preceding 12 months Luciana has scored 4 big hits on the ARIA club chart - she currently has two ("Go Go Go" and "I`ve Got My Eye On You") in the top 50 - including her double platinum top 5 smash hit collaboration with Static Revenger and Richard Vission, "I Wish That".The prolific diva is still shocked by the song`s popularity in Australia."It got to #2 or #3. We got platinum discs. It`s crazy. Australia was the foremost point to make it and now America is just starting. So hopefully that will happen and England has just sign it as well," she told Star Observer.The local success of "I Wish That" even helped Luciana score a book deal with Interscope Records - the family of pop heavyweights like Lady Gaga and Gwen Stefani."The curious thing is we went to Interscope_ a twelvemonth ago and naught happened. I was like `that`s a bit weird`. Flew us out there, wanted to see me, nothing happened and now here we are. [I] only got signed and am running on an EP and composition for other artists."One of those artists is Australia`s own Kylie Minogue. Luciana wrote the track "Cupid Boy" for the pop icon`s latest album "Aphrodite" - a career highlight for the self confessed Kylie fanatic."Oh my god! [I`m] an ultimate Kylie fan! I absolutely love her. And I wanted to get on the live album and that didn`t happen," she explains.Happily, she had more luck this time around."We got ["Cupid Boy"] from Sebastian Ingrosso from Swedish House Mafia and we were like `this is such a fabulous backing track that we want to make certain that what we do over it is awesome` and we worked and worked and edited and edited_ and so right at the final moment they chose the song. Oh god it was a moment. Honestly, I cried and called my mum. My mum was weeping with me!"Luciana has yet been called back to compose songs for the impending re-release of "Aphrodite"."We submitted a song called "If I Ruled The World"," she reveals.Apart from Kylie, the hit songwriter has been busy collaborating with some of the biggest pop stars in Us and the UK."I`m actually writing with Sarah Harding at the import from Girls Aloud. She`s down the studio. And she`s lovely. A full time girl. She`s got a large interpreter and we`re just writing some tracks together. And when we go to America we`re gonna do some material with Nicole Scherzinger."Given the way "I Wish That" is spying on in America (already a top 40 hit on pop airplay and speedily the iTunes top 200 countdown), Luciana could be spending a lot of time stateside."I`m moving to LA at the first of September for 3 months to publish and hopefully advance the single. You know depending on what`s happening. It`s just got added to MTV Hits, so that`s a truly amazing thing. These small things are starting to find but fingers crossed it`s all passing to go out."That doesn`t think that Luciana has forgotten about her Australian fans. She is reverting to Australia - for the 4th time in 2010 - for a turn in December and even plans to go here permanently."Yeah what I`m thinking is - have an album out, then a child, then go to Australia. Put some flip flops on. Hang. It`s all good!"
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